The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators (Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire"); the Nazis believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community; during the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others); other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. At the annual party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935 (15 September) , the Nazis announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology; The Nuremberg Laws, as they became known, did not define a "Jew" as someone with particular religious beliefs:instead, anyone who had three or four Jewish grandparents was defined as a Jew, regardless of whether that individual identified himself or herself as a Jew or belonged to the Jewish religious community; many Germans who had not practiced Judaism for years found themselves caught in the grip of Nazi terror; even people with Jewish grandparents who had converted to Christianity were defined as Jews.
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The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators (Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire"); the Nazis believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were an alien threat to the so-called German racial community; during the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the disabled, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others); other groups were persecuted on political, ideological, and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals. At the annual party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935 (15 September) , the Nazis announced new laws which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology; The Nuremberg Laws, as they became known, did not define a "Jew" as someone with particular religious beliefs:instead, anyone who had three or four Jewish grandparents was defined as a Jew, regardless of whether that individual identified himself or herself as a Jew or belonged to the Jewish religious community; many Germans who had not practiced Judaism for years found themselves caught in the grip of Nazi terror; even people with Jewish grandparents who had converted to Christianity were defined as Jews.
Source: https://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007695